Retrievable sinker



March 1, 1938. F. w. GAINES ET AL RETRIEVABLE SINKER Filed April 3, 1957INVENTOR F.W. GAINES ATTORNEY...

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BET'RIEVABLE SINKEB Floyd W. Gaines andWilliam B. Williams, Portland, Oreg.

Application April 3, 1937, Serial No. 1:4,s1o

2 Claims. (01. 43-52) This invention relates generally to sinkers, andIt can be seen in Figs. 5 and 6 that when an end particularly to aretrievable sinker. l I engages a recess 24, for example, in the rock 24The main object of this invention is the conthe line IIis apt to besnagged permanently. A struction of a sinker for fishing purposes whichpull on the lead wire l4, however, will cause it to 5 will make itpossible to easily dislodge the sinker up end the sinker as shown inFig. 6 permitting 5 after it has become caught on a rock or another thelead wire l8 to move from the dotted posiobiect. tion shown in Fig. 6 tothe position shown in full The second object is to so construct thesinker lines in the same figure, thereby permitting the that itseffectiveness as a sinker will not be lessinker to be easily withdrawnin the majority of 10 sensed and its tendency to become snagged will becases.

greatly lessened. In the form of the device shown in Figs. 3 and Thethird object is to so construct the sinker 4, the body 28 is somewhattriangular in crossthat it will be easy to manufacture and will standsection. but the guide 21 is identical with the a great deal of abusewithout being rendered inguide ll shown in Fig. 1. The ends II arepreferoperative. ably rounded as shown. 15

These, and other objects, will become more ap- In the form of the deviceshown in Figs. 7 and parent from the specification following as illus- 8the body 2! is provided with a slot ill whichextrated in theaccompanying drawing, in which: tends along the middle portion of thesinker and Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the preferred form holds thepin II of the clevis 32 which is proof the device showing a portion ofone end therevided with an eye 33 for attaching the lead of broken awayin longitudinal section. wire ll. Fig. 2 is a transverse section takenalong the It is desirable to line the slot Iii with an inse line 2-4 inFig. 1. 34 of a material which is harder than the lead Fig. 3 is afragmentary side elevation of a modibody 2!. fled form of the device. Itwill be noted in the form of the device shown 25 Fig. 4 is a transversesection taken along the in Fig. 7 that the pin 4| can slide in theslot40 line 4-4 in Fig. 3. and that the clevis I2 is long enough to permitFig. 5 is a view showing a sinker being snagged it to pass around theend 44, as shown in dotted on a rock. lines in Fig. 7. I Fig. 6 is aview similar to Fig. 5 but showing the While we have thus illustratedand described 30 sinker being freed from the rock. our invention, it isnot our intention to cover only Fig. 7 is a plan of a modified form ofthe device. the precise forms illustrated and described here- Fig. 8 isa section taken along th line H in in, but we do intend to cover allforms and modifi- Fig.7. cations thereof which fall fairly within theap- Similar numbers of reference refer to similar pended claim!- 85parts throughout the several views. We claim:

Referring in detail to the drawing, there is 1. A retrievabie sinkerconsisting of an elonshown in Figs. 1 and 2 a somewhat cylindrical gatedcylindrical weight having rounded ends and body III having rounded endsI l. A portion of the 11 M118 th ln e 'm P 11 1 ther f c away body I. iscut away to form a somewhat flat on one sid a s d di pose etween theends curved side I! between the portions is of the end; of the sinkerand means for slidably attaching a ll. Embedded into each of theportions is is the i to said s d end l4 of a guide wire I! whoseoutermost side ll An longated cylindrical weight having is substantiallytangent to the circumference of rounded end! Ind 118M118 0118 Hidethereof Out the ends II. On the guide wire II is mounted a between inds. a wire adapted to bridge ring II to which is attached a lead wireis which th s between said ends and to e ecured is attached to theswivel ll, which in turn is fasthereto and m n for slid ly attachin aline tended to a ring 2| attached to the fishing line ii. to the portionof i wire between said ends. Ahookflisattachedbymeansofaleader "to FLOYDW. GAINEB.

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